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At that $1,000-a-plate dinner for Bob Dole at the Airport Hilton in Dania on Wednesday night, the Republican presidential candidate hardly ate a bite.

"I never eat at these things," he said, "I'd rather go and talk to everyone."Which he did, moving around, posing for pictures with, or shaking the hands of, most of the 535 people in the ballroom.

After the meal, when Dr. Zachariah P. Zachariah (who is running Dole's push in Florida) introduced him, the crowd stood clapping and cheering. Dole cried out, "I accept the nomination!" and the crowd roared. He said it was the eighth time he'd said that since Monday. He kept repeating it every place he made a candidacy announcement. "It felt so good that first time."

Dole explained that those two see-through disks elevated to eye-level in front of him were his teleprompters. And how one time, "I got up to speak and they were upside down. I gave half the speech before I realized it. And I think I was better than I'd been doing."